Two-wheeled vehicle



(No Model.)

J. DALEY. TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

No. 425,566. Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

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JOSEPH DALEY, OF EMPORIA, KANSAS.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,566, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filed February 8 1890. Serial No. 339,701. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- seat in position. This truss F, shackles f, Be it known that I, JOSEPH DALEY, t Emand axle E are wrought in one piece, thereby poria, Lyon county, Kansas, have invented dispensing with rivets and bolts. certain new and 'useful Improvements in G is a king-bolt which passes from the cen- 5 Trussed Axle and Spring Attachments for ter of the truss F downward through the axle Speeding-Carts, of which the following is a E, where it is provided with a nut g, by which full, clear, and exact description, reference said bolt G may be kept tight, thereby makbeinghadtotheaccompanyingdrawingsjorming the tension between the truss and axle in g a part hereof. rigid. IO My invention relates to improvements in By having this axle constructed in the mantrussed axles and spring attachments for ner illustrated I provide an axle which is very speeding-carts, dzc; and it consists in the durable, the segmental shape of said axle novel construction and arrangement hereincausing it to be raised high enough to keep after set forth and described. the limbs of the animal secured between the 15 The objects of my invention are, first, to shafts from coming in contact therewith.

provide an axle light and durable; second, to The truss F gives greater strength to the provide an axle with trusses, to which may axle, and the weight of the seat, instead of be secured the spring, and, third, to attain coming directly on the center of the axle, is these ends with simplicity and economy of equalized by said trusses and king-bolt G and 20 construction, which I do by employing the distributed over the entire axle. The front device illustrated in the accompanying drawend of the seat is hinged to the cross-bar by ings, in which hinge 72 so as to give the spring an easy move- Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a ment. 7o speeding-cart mounted on my improved axle. Having thus fully described my invention, 25 Fig. 2 is a front elevation of said axle. Fig. 3 what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by is a sectional view taken on line to a; of Fig. 2. Letters Patent, is

Referring to the drawings by letter, A rep- 1. A trussed axle and spring attachment, resents my invention. composed of the main segmental axle E, 75

B are suitable shafts secu red to the axle E, wrought in combination with trusses F, which 0 which is mounted on wheels C. are provided with shackles f, to which the D is a seat for said speeding-cart, mounted coiled spring (1 is secured and held in position on the coil-spring (Z and secured in the attachby means of bolt f, for the purposes substanmentsf, as shown in Fig. l. tially as specified.

E represents my improved axle having the 2. In a sulky, the combination, with the 35 spindle e constructed in the ordinary mantrussed axle, of the trusses F, provided with ner, which maybe provided Withsuitable nuts shackles f f, of a seat hinged at h and supfor holding the wheels in position, said axle ported by a coiled spring (Z, said coiled spring E being made segmental in shape, so that having an arm provided with an eye on its when the horse is hitched in the shafts and end extending down to and fastened in the 40 is traveling very rapidly his limbs will not shackles ff by means of the bolt f, substancome in contact with said axle. tially as hereinbefore described.

From the points e 'e of the axle a truss F is In testimony whereof I at'fix my signaturein provided which extends upward at an obtuse presence of two witnesses. angle. This truss F meets at a central point a J OSEPII DALEY. 5 and is provided with a vertical shackle f, W'itnesses:

through which is secured a bolt f, which holds GEORGE K. MARTIN, the coil-spring (1, which in turn secures the NM. R. CARLOW. 

